The sweet silence before sunrise : taken from An island garden by Celia Thaxter : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Leavitt, Nancy Ruth, artist.

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894, author.

Contributor:

MacGregor, Katie, papermaker.

Mermaid Bindery, binder.

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens--Maine.

Gardens.

Celia Thaxter's Garden (Appledore Island, Me.).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

calligraphy (visual works)

Artists' books.

Watercolors.

Manuscripts, American -- 21st century.

Manuscripts, English -- 21st century.

Penn Provenance:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Physical Description:

1 volume (22 leaves) : paper ; 31 x 24 cm

Production:

Stillwater, Maine, 2011.

Summary:

Artist's book presenting an excerpt from Celia Thaxter's An island garden, describing a moonset, sunrise, and happiness, hand-lettered in gouache and painted in watercolor. Bound by Joelle Leavitt Webber of Mermaid Bindery, with endpapers and paper cover of Katie MacGregor handmade papers. Housed in a custom cloth-covered box with title lettered by the artist on the spine and lining of painted paper.

Cited in:

Described in OK, I’ll do it myself: narratives of intrepid women in the American wilderness: selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, New York (exhibit catalog, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, 2018), p. 66-67 (no. 69).

Cited as:

Nancy Ruth Leavitt, The Sweet Silence before Sunrise (Oversize Ms. Codex 2094). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1359275921